Jeffrey Chipps Smith is Professor and Kay Fortson Chair in European Art at the Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent of which is Kunstkammer: Early Modern Art and Curiosity Cabinets in the Holy Roman Empire.

• Preface; 1 Self-Fashioning and Posthumous Futures; 2 The Dürer Renaissance; 3 The Authority and Appeal of Dürer’s Prints; 4 The Written Story of Albrecht Dürer; 5 Dürer and the German Romantics; 6 Celebrating Dürer; 7 Dürer’s Institutional Canonization; 8 The Popularization of Dürer; 9 Whose Dürer?; 10 Dürer Unleashed; Select Bibliography; Photo Captions; Index

‘of value to students of German history and art history, especially those interested in German nationhood and identity; the transmission of cultural forms; and, of course, Dürer’s art and legacy’ – German History